Piraat 10.5%

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Ertvelde, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Pours milky honey gold with a 1 finger creamy white head that has decent retention. Aroma is sourdough bread dough, grassy and herbal hops, maple sap, green grapes, and dusty straw. Flavor is fruity up front, passionfruit, cantaloup, lime, and apple, followed by bread dough, raw yeast, a little grapefruit, light caramel, artificial sweetener, grass and limestone. Finish is peppery yeast, orange peel, alcohol and dusty red apple. Palate is medium thickness, slick all around and has a sharp carbonation. All around a decent beer but it’s alcohol content overpowers its flavor profile a little too much.

bottle, clear colden colour, white head, sharp taste, smells like alcohol, hoppy taste. Mild bitter aftertaste with a bit corn within. The beer gives you a warm feeling and isn’t that bad. More a typical Van Steenberge beer!

Bottle 33cl. The beer betrays a slight odor of metal, but it isn’t overwhelming. Taste is nice: a bit of caramel and a bitter aftertaste. Unfortunateley you can taste the metal and the Piraat isn’t able to hide its alcoholic aftertaste (it rather gives a warm feeling). But overall a pleasant beer to drink.

Bottle. Poured a huge, rocky-frothy, white head. Hazy, golden orange pour with abundant yeast clouds. Bready malt aroma with some sweet grain, hay and straw. A little caramel sweetness. Doughy yeast component with a light, spicy hops presence. Some clove and coriander also comes through. The alcohol is surprisingly tough to find until the first sip, when my sinuses were cleared. The flavor is of sweet malts and herbal hops, all of which is quickly extinguished by the alcohol. Note that it’s not a completely unpleasant alcoholic taste - more warming than burning. The alcohol does detract from the body, however, which is fairly sticky and alcoholic with lively carbonation. Overall a fun beer to drink, but it could be better if the alcohol were tamed a bit.

Bottle. Pours an amber body with a thick white head. Pineapple and orange etoh latent fruit. Spicy with a fruit punch character sharp carbonation and pepper spice. Doughy with some malty caramel and honey.

Bottle, pours crystal clear with a large white moslty lasting head with nice lacing. Aroma of malt, bread and yeast with some flowery hops. Flavor is similar to aroma, full body with a nice warming bitter aftertaste. Alchohol is nicely hidden but its presence is though noticed since it’s quite heavy to drink.

i poked out my eye with a salad folk and glued a live parrot to my shoulder to get, you know, in the mood for this brew ... some nice flavours mixed in with the alcoholic kick .. . abv is played out nicely .. .mellow and alcoholic.. ok lacing... sugar cereal block flavors ..

Pours a hazy gold with a good amount of head that didnt really stick around slight sweet hoppy taste. Lots of alcohol and a little bit of spicy malt flavor going down it definitely packs a punch reminds me a bit of Duvel